CISA is aware of a public report, known as “OT:ICEFALL” that details vulnerabilities found in multiple operational technology (OT) vendors. CISA is issuing this advisory to provide notice of the reported vulnerabilities and identify baseline mitigations for reducing risks to these and other cybersecurity attacks.
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities can result in a denial-of-service condition, manipulation of runtime communications, or compromise of a controller.
The following versions of DeltaV Distributed Control System, a software management platform, are affected:
Several protocols, including Firmware upgrade, Plug-and-Play, Hawk services, Management, SIS communications, and multi-cast have no authentication. This could allow an attacker who has reverse-engineered communications to invoke desired functionality or cause a denial-of-service condition.
CVE-2022-29957 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3 base score of 6.8 has been assigned; the CVSS vector string is (AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H).
The affected product is vulnerable by using hard-coded credentials in the FTP service, which is disabled by default.
CVE-2022-29962 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3 base score of 4.2 has been assigned; the CVSS vector string is (AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).
The affected product is vulnerable to hard-coded credential use within the read-only Telnet service.
CVE-2022-29963 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3 base score of 1.8 has been assigned; the CVSS vector string is (AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N).
The affected product is vulnerable to hard-coded credential use within the SSH service, which is disabled by default.
CVE-2022-29964 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3 base score of 4.2 has been assigned; the CVSS vector string is (AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).
Firmware images are not signed and rely on insecure checksums for regular integrity checks. This could allow an attacker to push malicious firmware images, execute code, or cause a denial-of-service condition.
CVE-2022-30260 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3 base score of 6.3 has been assigned; the CVSS vector string is (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Access to privileged operations in the maintenance interface is controlled by a challenge-response authentication that uses a deterministic insecure algorithm.
CVE-2022-29965 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 has been assigned; the CVSS vector string is (AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Daniel dos Santos and Jos Wetzels from Forescout Technologies reported these vulnerabilities to CISA.
Emerson has provided the following mitigations or workarounds:
Emerson has corrected CVE-2022-29965 in all currently supported versions of DeltaV. For additional mitigations and preventative measures, please see the Emerson Guardian Support Portal (login required).
Emerson has mitigated CVE-2022-29962, CVE-2022-29963, and CVE-2022-29964 in all currently supported versions of DeltaV. Please see the Emerson Guardian Support Portal (login required) for more information.
Emerson corrected the Firmware image verification vulnerability in Version 14.3 and mitigated it in all other versions. Please see the Emerson Guardian Support Portal (login required) for more information.
CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of this vulnerability these vulnerabilities. Specifically, users should:
CISA reminds organizations to perform proper impact analysis and risk assessment prior to deploying defensive measures.
CISA also provides a section for control systems security recommended practices on the ICS webpage at cisa.gov/ics. Several recommended practices are available for reading and download, including Improving Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity with Defense-in-Depth Strategies.
Additional mitigation guidance and recommended practices are publicly available on the ICS webpage at cisa.gov/ics in the Technical Information Paper, ICS-TIP-12-146-01B–Targeted Cyber Intrusion Detection and Mitigation Strategies.
Organizations observing any suspected malicious activity should follow their established internal procedures and report their findings to CISA for tracking and correlation against other incidents.
No known public exploits specifically target these vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities have a high attack complexity.
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